Join locals in bethlehem for Christmas Eve celebrations. Hello, and welcome to world news today. Its Christmas Morning in australia, but hundreds of families are spending the day in emergency shelters, unable to celebrate in their homes, as the country battles one of its worst bushfire disasters in years. Figures released by firefighters in New South Wales reveal nearly 1,000 houses have been destroyed. Conditions have eased, but another extreme heatwave is due later this week. Prime minister Scott Morrison was criticised for going on holiday during the bushfires. Hes since returned and apologised for being away. He says volunteer firefighters who work in the federal Public Sector will be given an extra four weeks paid leave. Phil mercer reports from New South Wales. Koalas and other Australian Animals are the unseen victims of the fires. Much of their habitat has been destroyed and the survivors need all the help they can get. The true extent of australias bushfire crisis is gradually
To understand why his teenage daughter molly took her own life after seeing pictures of self harm on instagram. My colleagues Angus Crawford and tony smith broke the story. This is the story of molly russell. Molly was the youngest of three sisters. At the time she seemed to be a very ordinary teenager. She was 14. She was enthusiastic. She handed her homework in that night, she packed her bags and was preparing to go to school the next day, and then when we woke up the next morning, she was dead. Molly was one of around 200 children who take their own lives every year. Since her death, we have been able to look back and just scratch the surface of some of the social media accounts that she had been following. I remember this one, that picture. This world is so cruel, i dont want to see it any more. There are accounts from people who are depressed or self harming, and some of that content seems to be quite positive, perhaps groups of people who were trying to help each other out, but s
Everything is slowing down. Low pressure to the north of the uk and that will be the focus for most of the rain on monday. Again, showers and longer spells of rain and snow over the hills of scotland. A little bit of rain flirting with the South East Cornwall of england but on the whole, it looks like its going to be dry and there should be quite a bit of sunshine but the area still quite chilly. This colder air we are going to be sitting with for the beginning of the week but thats going to change. You can see how the colours change, the winds pick up and things are going to get milder and things are going to get milder and thats because were starting to get more movement from the atlantic, where there is a big area of low pressure and that will push this band of rain ahead, pick up the winds and then another area of low pressure follows in behind to bring more wind and rain. So the weathers going to change from the colder, drier to something milder, wetter and windier. That will chan
We re our leaders are not caving as if we were in an emergency. In an emergency you change your behaviour to live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Its 8am in singapore, and here in london its just turned thursday the day the british electorate vote in their general election. The Party Leaders spent the final day of campaigning travelling from one key constituency to another, hoping to win last minute support. The bbcs Political Editor laura kuenssberg, has all the latest. Mrs monaghan at number eight was the yorkshire tory voter with an unusual milkman this morning. Morning so nice to meet you, Prime Minister. What are you doing up this morning . I am bringing your chocolate milk, orange juice. 0h, chocolate milk the last day of any election peak political pantomime. I will be with you in a second. I have an earpiece ready to go. Borisjohnson even retreated into a giant fridge when a reporter tried to persuade him on live television. Dont b
To Eliot Higgins, founder of the open source investigations website bellingcat. Welcome to hardtalk, with me, stephen sackur. What is the truth behind the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight mh17 or the poisoning of the former russian spy Sergei Skripal, or the recent assassination of a Chechen Rebel fighter in berlin. My guest today thinks he can piece together truths from the World Wide Web. He is Eliot Higgins, the founder of investigative website bellingcat. In an age beset by fake news, has he really found a way to distinguish fact from fiction . Eliot higgins, welcome to hardtalk. I want to start if i may with a self definition. Would you describe yourself as a journalist or a data analyst or some sort of online detective . I like online detective. We do acts ofjournalism and some of the work we are doing but really, the way we work with bellingcat uses open source investigation on a whole range of topics that go beyond journalism. I find it very difficult to define what we